“The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.” IfsKnowsMenHumansEarthLastsWishCommunityChanceEnemyAliveShareLosingCapacityRemainsInsightDialogueRebelOriginalityUniquenessBeing HumanAdversariesExterminationSilencing Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.” WarFightingChallengesChanceFivePiecesAliveLandIsraelSmall PiecesYom Kippur Author:Shimon Peres
“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.” WorldGivingYearsChildrenHas BeensMadeReasonSeemsMightEarthFormOrderUniverseWaterChancePerfectAliveAtheismComfortableGloryAll ThingsClaimsHistoricalEightBillionsHeightCoveredMight Have BeenFascinationHubrisA Perfect WorldAbodeWhy MeContingencyOctopusHappy To Be Alive Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
“Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.” KnowsWayGivingFeelsWellsChancePerfectKnow HowAliveBalanceOceanGive MeHittingButtonsResetPerfect BalanceReset Button Author:Jack Johnson
“I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.” WantChanceAliveConformTake A ChanceStaying Alive Author:Robert Redford
“Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place,being alive right now is the greatest gift i got from God.” InspirationalGivingHumansEarthHeavenBornChanceHuman BeingsAliveMagicHigherHonorRight NowHighestPrivilegeParadiseDimensionsBetter PlaceExquisiteGreatest GiftsFeats Author:Rob Brezsny
“If you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!” IfsKnowsLifeHeartSuccessChanceAliveGratitudeCelebrateGreatest SuccessChances In Life Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Don't worry, even if you fall over! It's all right. You can just pick yourself up again! When you fall over, make the most of the chance to look up and see the sky. You will see the blue sky spreading endlessly above you and smiling down. Aya, you are alive!” IfsLooksFallChanceWorryAliveSkyPicksBlueLook UpOver ItBlue SkyPick Yourself Up Author:Aya Kito
“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingYearsFirstsLittlesWantedJobsFilmThreeSidesChanceStruggleFourAliveDoorsGive MeScriptsPushingEditorsFour YearsNo MoneyStaying AliveBangingCameramanGive Me A Chance Author:George Lucas
“That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.” PeopleThinkingGivingJobsChanceAlivePassagesRemindersDistractedPassage Of Time Author:Adam Haslett
“Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.” MenFightingChanceGreaterAliveEvolutionScaredStayingStakesInjuredOffspringSubtletyStaying AliveStealthDainty Author:Anne Campbell
“To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.” MenLifeChanceAliveMiraclePreservesMidstHostility Author:Jeremy Taylor
“Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.” HomeChanceSleepAliveTearsReturnRiversWeeping Author:David Paul